An adventure in making toys - Old Time Farm Truck #7: Wheels

Making the wheels was a bit of a head scratcher. Since I have a lathe I thought about turning the wheels on the lathe. I had a problem however, because I don’t have a chuck for the lathe and I wanted to do some face turning on the wheels just to make them a bit more interesting.

I thought about making a homemade chuck and seeked some advise in the Woodturning forum. I again experienced the brotherhood of LJ’s with quite a bit of good advise. In the end I decided to leave the lathe for another project and attack the problem from another angle and the idea for the Drill Powered Toy Wheel making Lathe was born.

I made two test wheels to see if it would work.It worked quite well

I cut the wheel blanks with a hole saw and then mounted them to Toy making lathe with a nut and bolt.

A very good idea, that I am going to look into as I need to make a lot of wheels for toy trucks etc and have also been thinking about making a jig so as to get all the wheels looking the same (size & shape)